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Police say thieves on the South Side are targeting workmen on the jobs as they are renovating homes and apartment buildings. As CBS 2’s Roseanne Tellez reports, police are warning contractors and homeowners, to be on alert.

“We don’t keep much money on us,” one worker said Monday.

But other properties being rehabbed were not so secure. There were open gates and unlocked doors.

Armed thieves have taken advantage. Chicago police say there has been a string of armed robberies at rehab sites in the Chicago Lawn and Marquette Park neighborhoods.

There are plenty of boarded up buildings there — some being worked on, others abandoned. Residents say any vacant property in the neighborhoods is boarded up to keep thieves from breaking the windows.

That’s what Yajaida Rodriguez did after purchasing one property.

But before she could move in, the place was ransacked. Thieves took the bathroom tub and sink and ripped into the wall for the pipes.

“They took all my counter tops. They ripped the up the wall, they took the piping,” she said.

And yes, they got the kitchen sink.

The thieves are “disregarding other people’s property basically,” Rodriguez said. “So now I have to start again.”

With regard to the workers, Area One detectives are warning construction crews to lock the doors and gates. Don’t leave property in plain view.

Acknowledging his state has “come under the harsh glare of criticism” over a controversial new “religious freedom” law, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence said he wants state lawmakers to pass new legislation that makes clear businesses cannot discriminate against gay and lesbian couples.

Police said the robbers used a prop in at least two holdups in the Fuller Park neighborhood. They set up a road construction barrel in the street, and when a motorist gets out of his or her car to move it aside, the robbers pounce.

Indonesian prosecutors on Tuesday sought jail sentences of 18 years for an American man and 15 years for his girlfriend if they are found guilty of murdering the woman's mother while vacationing on the resort island of Bali last year.

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